Averagely Perfect ESB - Poll #2 - ABV Runoff

5.2 because session.

 

If this one ties will we just take the average?

 

You, being a man of knowledge, will have a clear idea of mans mortality, and therefore would put the glass with the poison as far away from yourself as possible. I can, therefore, not choose the glass in front of me.

 

I thought this was about beer not a battle of wits( is this a pun?) with a Sicilian.

 

did the other beers go through these minimal polls? I mean I fully support the original poll, but another 3 days poll on 5.2 vs 5.4? Really? does .02 or in-between really matter? what is going on

 

just call it 5%, with everyone's different systems it will end up between 4 and 6%

 

Yes, they did.

 

are we comparing dick lengths? how long have you been brewing and how often?

I don't post here often, it was daily on HBT years ago

 

I get that you don't post here often, and you haven't seen the other polls and recipes that came from them. But honestly; if you don't have anything meaningful to add, why are you wasting peoples time?

 

If you don't like how it's run, don't take part. No one wants to hear whining.

 

Some do actually find it entertaining.

 

The bickering or the statistics? Or both?

 

Both.

But mostly the statistics.

 

All of the above!

 

I get what you are saying, but bear with the program. Everyone approaches recipe formulation differently. Most of us could rattle off a recipe for ESB, and we could send it off to Vikeman, and he could average it all out and post the recipe in a day, and we could move on to the next thing. But that's not the way this works. It wouldn't capture the decision making that some folks insert into the process. There is something to be learned, but it is not for those with short attention spans.

Personally, I don't really spend anytime thinking about ABV per se when I brew a batch. I figure out what I want the OG to be, figure out what yeast I want, and, then leave it up to them to do the math. Maybe part of that is thinking about how attenuative the yeast is. But the fact that a long-time brewer does think about recipe formulation in this other, meticulous way does give me pause to wonder if there might be something to it.

 

Hey there, you 5.3% voters -- time to change your vote and decide if you prefer 5.2% or 5.4%. Unlike your vote for a third-party candidate just cause you hate the other 2 parties, political statements serve no purpose in Averagely Perfect polling.